Friday, August 21, 2009

Subconscious

What role does the subconscious have in architecture?

Make makes cities great? Could you create a business model that looked at a city, identified businesses/services that were lacking and create them for profit?

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

ideas

feng shui

light

architecture as advertising

acoustic space

the future of housing

animal architecture - what would a termite mound look like at a human scale?

trends of suburbia

what is the art component of architecture? can it be separated from the practical (tech) or is it only the practical?

the new- what role do new shapes, forms, etc. have in architecture? is it truly wrong to design a victorian house today?

underground- what place do humans have in caves, man made or otherwise

mystery- how do we use mystery to create depth in architecture

time- how does architecture age - can you plan it -as durable as buildings are can you use them to connect with someone in the future or past?

emotion- what would a catalog of shapes, buildings, colors or forms look like that were tied to different emotions.

are humans out of equilibrium with the environments we inhabit? is there a realistic way to coinhabit environments with other species?

are buildings living creatures? how does one define life? they take in energy, expel waste... can you consider humans and buildings one creature? like a mollusk that creates its shell?